Ice Nebula

It's analogue of Devy Nebula. Two clouds, two serious guns and a bunch of NPCs. After killing everything that moves, and the start of harvesting may be respawn drones:

Safe operations in the null sec. Scout, cyno, courier

This guide is not intended to be a comprehensive coverage of topic about safe flying in low and null sec, rather, on a very small piece of this. The question will be exclusively about the cases when you need to move pilot from point A to point B. For example, you have ship for him in the destination point, or you just want to travel to the end of the EVE universe and back, to see the famous gates through which our ancestors came to this world (i was there - nothing interesting). I personally use this technique to deliver cyno to distant system, and to send there the pilots for ships delivered by carrier. And of course for scouts.

How to safely fly in null sec on the big hulking ships, that cost several billion, so that they were not dismantled for spare parts I'll tell another time

Pale Nebula

This nebula was a surprise to me - in a list compiled based on the Internet, this has not been included. However, now I fill this gap.

It was found in the constellation Assilot, produced in her accordingly Viridian Cytoserocin.

There are two clouds - one smaller, 500 units of gas, the second 2,500. The distance between the clouds 150km, as result shot of one cloud does not reach to another.  The Viridian cloud  beat only thermals, in contrast to, for example, Amber, which deals double damage (Thermal and EM). So it's easy to tank.

There aren’t any NPC in this nebula! Neither warp or after. Rare fact, good for rookie. Local residents (mostly Americans) do not hunt me too, we simply do not intersect at the time. Midnighy in Moscow is sunshine in L.A. :)

Mercium belt

• Venture,  2 flights (6.000 m3 ore)
• 2 battleships + 2 frigates
• up to 2KK bounty
• up to 3KK loot

Pirate Intrusion

• acceleration gate
• 2 pockets
• frigs and cruisers

Lol… Security missions lvl2 are easier then mining missions lvl1 :)

Bountiful Banidine

• ship: Venture
• 2 battleships + 3 frigates
• about 2KK bounty
• about 2KK loot

Mercium Experiments

• use Venture (1080 m3 ore)

Asteroid catastrophe

• use Venture (1080m3 of ore)
• 2 battleships + 3 cruisers
• about 4KK loot
• about 2KK bounty

Starting Simple

• you need Venture (2.000 m3 ore volume)
• no hostiles

Passing the isk

• you need Venture (1080 m3 ore volume)
• no hostile there
• 4 cruisers
• up to 2 battleships and 3 frigates
• about 2KK bounty
• about 2.5KK loot
  

Augumene Allergen (5 of 5)

• warping to Quarantine station ruins and drop DNA. No NPC here
• looking for station with manufacturing facilities and manufacture antidot
• go to agent

 

 

Augumene Allergen (4 of 5)

Combat mission. I have no weapons on my scout ship, so i used alt in second window. Reward (Modified Augumene Antidote BPC) needs for next step

Augumene Allergen (3 of 5)

One more very simple (and cheap) mission. Warp to, loot and return. No NPC.

Next mission wil be better.

Augumene Allergen 2 of 5

Transport mission. It was easy, just pass through a  Sabre on undock. And no more difficulties

Augumene Allergen 1 of 5

My first ORE Mission

You need acquire 100m3 Augumene, special, mission only ore. The hardest part - to fly out of the station and go through the gate, so that you weren't killed. Another problem – there are nothing on the local market. All ship equipment you’ll carry from the Empire.

Scouting

If you aren’t true PvP gamer, just humble PvE… and want to fly over low/null sec on big, slow, expensive ship (darnit... why we can't do 10/10 plexes on a cheap and small ones?) – you need scout. He’ll fly ahead on the white horse something small and cheap and look around the corner. Of course, you must play in two or more windows for this.

When I was newby i used shuttles for this purposes. But then found a better option.

Why I don’t like shuttles?

The main reason: if you get into a gate camp - you're dead. No options. It’s not so bad when you fly around your home system and without implants. But if you want to fly for 15-20 jumps? It turns out a huge waste of time - slave can not fly further without scout. But when you have flown there again, how do you know that the gate camp are no more? You jump in… and if they are still there – you’re dead again. And if along the way several of these systems? What to do?

Diamond Nebula

Another nebula in the constellation Pegasus, and mined there respectively Celadon Cytoserocin (what and where is mined you can see here). From two clouds I've got 2,900 units of gas. One cloud is bigger, the second smaller, exact figures can not say. Nebula from the category average risk in mining - the clouds beat by Thermal and EM, but they are far away from each other - and you'll be beaten only by one cloud. Only one venture per cloud, mine by two with my skills is guaranteed kill myself. And even by one I had to stop harvesters after each stroke and to restore shield. I study all skills that relates to the strength of all shields and in particular, but for some skills it's necessary to send a courier to Jita.

After warp in there is no one, but a bit later guests appear

Lots of drone structures - apparently they may appear, but as in other places, it is probabilistic in nature. This time nobody spawns.

Aborigines behave calmly, I was expecting an old memory from various dirty tricks from Test Alliance (ROL - do not forget, do not forgive), but they hinder me much less than snobs from Executive Outcomers. To tell the truth - as long as the tests do not interfere at all. Meanwhile, in the cargo of already formed about 11K of gas and it pleases.

Freighter convoy in Null-sec

It is nervous and ungrateful business. This huge clumsy chest, stuffed with a great value property is a very tempting target for any gang, who happened to be nearby. The best way to transport cargo freighter in nulls- give it up and carry everything you need with a smaller transport. Jump freighter in most cases is much more preferable. Unfortunately some items can’t be loaded even in JF, however hard you try. For example a hub or fifth level upgrades for it.

Even in this case it is necessary to think about building all this stuff somewhere nearby.

Well, if I have still not convinced you....

First, you need cruiser for support. It is highly desirable. Suitable any of them, on which you can install three stasis webifier, microwarp drive, cloacking device and a pair of warpstabs. It mean – cruiser must have 4 medium slots at least. Everything else - optional.

It might sound strange, but webifier you will use to accelerate the freighter. MWD need to quickly approach it, warpstabs give you some hope on salvation, and you need cloack for quietly waiting out the invasion of enemies on the spot.

In fact, for these purposes recommend Rapier, it can dramatically reduce the need for the MWD. This is the first and only advantage. You don’t need covert ops cloacking device, and the loss of T2-ship will be much expensive than the usual cruiser.

Secondly it is desirable to have at least one scout. A better of the two.  Better yet, three. One or two are flying in front, one covers your ass. Precaution is not superfluous given that the freighter flying, to put it mildly, not quick. As long as you fly from one gate to another, someone quick has enough time to fly through previous system, and this, and happy to meet you.

Third, to pass through the bridge freighter takes an enormous amount of fuel. It's wise to talk with the owners of bridges and clarify how do you compensate for their costs. Fuel for the bridge can be brought at the freighter, but to refill them yourself you can’t.

Technology of freighter acceleration

• Do not use it near bridge! Bridge can attack you - depending on the configuration

The technology is based on the following facts:

• The ship goes to warp at a rate about approximately 75% of maximum. For accuracy I can not vouch.
• The maximum speed of the ship depends on included modules (afterburner and MWD) and external factors (webifier)
• The current speed when the above conditions are not changed immediately, but with some acceleration other than infinity.

That is, when you activate webifier to freighter, the value of its maximum speed immediately drops, and if the current speed is greater than 75% of this new maximum - it instantly goes to warp. 3 webifier is almost guaranteed to send him to the warp at any non-zero velocity. Without the use of webifiers - acceleration will occur painfully slow.

Nuances

• Since this is considered an aggressive action, cruiser can have some problems. It can't pass next gate until end timer of aggression. It lasts a short time and after a few tries you will pass, so don't worry about.
• Webifiers should be applied quickly. Ideally - Turn on the webifier, then begin to aim (when target lock they will activated at the same time). I recommend you to put webifier into the first row of slots, and activate by pressing the F1-F2-F3.
• The biggest problem for the freighter are mobils (mobil warp disruptor).  It is desirable to avoid the systems in which the gates are closed by mobils, or negotiate with the owners to turn them off. In an extreme cases, shoot and then apologize. If the gate is not closed by mobil, and she pulls the ship for a few tens of kilometers away, you can fly around. Just set bookmark apart the gate.
• In the border systems, where usually are a lot of neutrals (eg HED) is usually present, also there is the alli fleet that camp gate. For them is not difficult to cover your ass ... but you after the passage of such a system is to lie low - log off and wait some time. Because it is a good chance that you were marked by everybody who can throw their business and come out to hunt. Freighter - a rare and very big prize.

And of course if you can gather a gang, and the freighter flies not two times each day, that is better if you fly with escort, under protection.

Massive Nebula

Very beautiful nebula with a cloud Celadon Cytoserocin, 7500 units of gas. It damage weakly by thermals only - you can mine together and even three.

There is nobody when you warp in, but as you have got the first batch of gas will spawn three small drone

Shoot them, we begin to dig ... and then there are more, the whole crowd

Light fast drones is good to kill them, drones but my character haven't skills. I'll have to fly to Jita and bring small guns for scouts.

And then again I'm diging, and again three drones. But it ends there, then nobody mess me digging. Well, only that the local (or non-local - who knows) scurrying back and forth, then they hung the bulb... Well, shit, who fear of wolves - not fucked in the forest .... I've mined all gaz.

Persistent Pests

• Venture
• 2 cruisers + 2 frigates
• poor bounty and loot

Another time, another agent and system:

• cruiser +3 frigates
• 3 small drones